Re: [PATCH] powerpc/5200: add LocalPlus bus FIFO device driver

2009-10-01 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi John: Am 01.10.09 20:45 schrieb(en) John Bonesio: Nowhere in the text does it say 0 and 1 are the only possible values. And since GR is a 3 bit field instead of a 1 bit field, that implied that to me that other values are allowed. I can see how one could read the text as saying 0 and 1 a

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/5200: add LocalPlus bus FIFO device driver

2009-10-01 Thread John Bonesio
Hi Albrecht, Thanks for the comments. My replies are below. - John On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:34 +0200, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > Hi John: > > Cool stuff - Grant's original one also helped me a lot to get Bestcomm > running for me (I use it only for read dma)! > > Am 29.09.09 22:43 schrieb(en) Jo

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/5200: add LocalPlus bus FIFO device driver

2009-09-30 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi John: Cool stuff - Grant's original one also helped me a lot to get Bestcomm running for me (I use it only for read dma)! Am 29.09.09 22:43 schrieb(en) John Bonesio: [snip] + * It may be worth experimenting with the ALARM value to see if + * there is a performance impacit. However,

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/5200: add LocalPlus bus FIFO device driver

2009-09-29 Thread Grant Likely
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:43 PM, John Bonesio wrote: > This is a driver for the FIFO device on the LocalPlus bus on an mpc5200 > system. > The driver supports programmed I/O through the FIFO as well as setting up DMA > via the BestComm engine through the FIFO. > > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely > S